To refresh your memory, we issued a call to all college basketball stat heads to show off their chops in a blogging and analysis contest. We received 64 first round entries, and trimmed those to 19 (we couldn’t pick just 16) by the time the actual Round of 64 was over. We’ve been publishing them throughout the past week, and you can find a full list of their winning submissions in our last Stat Geek Idol announcement post.

In the meantime, the Sweet 16 have been furiously click-clacking on their laptops, pulling new posts together for this next round. We’ve read a few of the submissions, and we’re pretty excited — all the contestants have seriously stepped up their game.

Their great new stuff is being packaged and shipped off to be judged by our celebrity panel (see “Sweet 16 Judges” below). Those fine fellows will be in charge of narrowing the field to a Final Four, who will then write one final piece each, to be read by the championship round judges: Mark Cuban, Daryl Morey, Dean Oliver, Ken Pomeroy, and Jeff Ma.